Today's progress report on Morales

The Angels' rehabbing slugger added gradual turns to his daily running workout on the outfield grass. The inclusion of changes in direction during the low-intesity sprints represents another incremental step forward for Morales.

Angels manager Mike Scioscia (back in camp after missing Sunday's workout with an illness) said he could see Morales progressing to running the bases within the next 10 days to two weeks.

"Once he runs the bases and feels good and rebounds, he's ready for games," Scioscia said. "Like I've said, I'm probably doing what I did last year when we got optimistic. I really want to guard against that.

"But the way he's running now and the way he's feeling recovering from that, then once he adds these outfield turns, it could be on the shorter side of that (10-day to two-week) window."

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